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An alternative interpretation is that processes internal to the ventral visual pathway are sufficient to support the visual identification of manipulable objects and that the retrieval of object-associated use information is contingent on analysis of the visual input by the ventral stream. Here, we sought to distinguish these two perspectives by exploiting the fact that the dorsal stream is largely driven by magnocellular input, which is biased toward low spatial frequency visual information. Thus, any tool-selective responses in parietal cortex that are driven by high spatial frequencies would be indicative of inputs from the ventral visual pathway. Participants viewed images of tools and animals containing only low, or only high, spatial frequencies during fMRI. We find an internal parcellation of left parietal \u201ctool-preferring\u201d voxels: Inferior aspects of left parietal cortex are driven by high spatial frequency information and have privileged connectivity with ventral stream regions that show similar category preferences, whereas superior regions are driven by low spatial frequency information. Our findings suggest that the automatic activation of complex object-associated manipulation knowledge is contingent on analysis of the visual input by the ventral visual pathway.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1162\/jocn_a_00370","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2013,2,14]],"date-time":"2013-02-14T13:40:30Z","timestamp":1360849230000},"page":"862-871","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1162\/mitpressjournals.corrections.policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":85,"title":["Spatial Frequency Tuning Reveals Interactions between the Dorsal and Ventral Visual Systems"],"prefix":"10.1162","volume":"25","author":[{"given":"Bradford Z.","family":"Mahon","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1University of Rochester"}]},{"given":"Nicholas","family":"Kumar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1University of Rochester"}]},{"given":"Jorge","family":"Almeida","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"2University of Coimbra"},{"name":"3University of 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